ipitco

@ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah i suppose any form of payment that you have to keep secret for some reason is a reason to use crypto, though I struggle to imagine needing that if you’re not doing something dodgy

  imagine you’re a YouTuber and want to accept donations: that will force you to give out your name to them, which they could use to get your address and phone number. There’s always someone that hates you, and I rather not have them knowing my personal info

  Wat. Crypto is not good at solving that, it’s in fact much much worse than traditional payment methods. There’s a reason scammers always want to be paid in crypto

  if you’re the seller then it’s a lot better. With the traditional banking system, with enough knowledge you can cheat both sides: stolen cards, abusive chargebacks, bank accounts in other countries under fake name/fake ID…

  Crypto simplifies scamming when the seller, and pretty much makes it impossible for buyers

  What specifically are you boycotting?

  Card payments, international tranfers, national transfers taking days to complete, money being seizable at all times

  many banks lose money on them

  Their plans are basically all focused on the card you get. Pretty sure they make money with it, else many wouldn’t offer cash back (selling infos and getting a fee from card payments?)

  if you think the people that benefit from you using crypto (crypto exchange owners and billionaires that own crypto etc.) are less evil than goverment regulated banks, you’re deluded.

  Banks are evil anyways, does it really change anything? The difference is that it technically helps everyone using crypto, not only the rich.

  Plus P2P exchanges are a thing

  You’ll spend more money using crypto for that, not less

  That’s just factually false. Do you know the price of a swift transfer? Now compare it to crypto tx fees, with many being under $0.01

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about donating money to people online without giving away your name and privacy? What about avoiding scams for P2P transactions? What about boycotting the banking system? What about avoiding international payment fees?

  These all seem valid use cases to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buckshot Roulette Creator’s New Game Is A Dark Psychological Hacking Adventure Launching Next Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really get what the gameplay would be

  Videos with only cinematic and shit is annoying. Give us some gameplay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you on? Because I want some

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG summer sale is live⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do if you use the client and we have testimonials of people claiming this

  Your comment was about using Heroic launcher. I don’t know why you want to misinform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG summer sale is live⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  since they can’t exactly track how many hours you’ve played

  They can and do if you use the client

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And stubbornly entitled

  Their uncle must’ve been rug pulled when buying a shitcoin or something and now they believe crypto is nothing but a scam

  But yea there’s nothing to do. If you can’t educate them then let them stay in their ignorance if they like it. I just don’t feel that letting them spread their misinformation is a good thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you sell something for $1 at 10am your $1 still buys $1 at 10pm.

  This is untrue for pretty much everything, even fiat. Everything is a market. A good example of this: stocks.

  in crypto, it’s easily manipulated, and that’s by design.

  Now this is just false. You’re just inventing fake facts here. You clearly know nothing of the history of crypto.

  If I sell 1BT worth of something at 10am, it could be worth 2BT at 10pm, but it could also be worth .1BT equally.

  Uhh no? 1 BTC will always be 1 BTC. Its value compared to other assets will change though. And in that case it would have less value indeed. You’re just allergic to high variations and high risks assets. Stocks is exactly the same. Some assets vary more than others. Let me assure you the value of BTC will never do a +/-10x in a day

  tell me, what governing body or economy is crypto backed by?

  Emission (POW, POS…) (or total stock), demand and offer and perceived value, just like everything on earth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USA also claimed they owned all BTC that went through dark net markets. I don’t care what they think about X or Y thing

  But yea that would be considered ML in many countries because you’re hiding the links and making it seem like normal money, which it should be imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t understand how crypto works it seems

  It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else

  That’s misleading. Your wallet scans blocks for transactions that goes to your wallet, but this is super fast for many cryptocurrencies. Wallets usually sync in seconds.

  this is one of the reasons why even the relatively low amount of transactions that Bitcoin processes costs more electricity than a small modern country.

  No. The main reason is block size and block emission period. Also, you’re completely forgetting the fact that non Proof Of Work cryptocurrencies exist, and have close to 0 electricity cost

  The entire idea behind it is what a third grader might come up with and think it’s a great idea. It’s not.

  If they do they’re pretty much a fucking genius for their age

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow massive bigotry right there. I should be banned for this, really.

  You didn’t find anything better, really? Laughable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf are you talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spicy point of view that I don’t agree with, but you’re straw manning here.

  I’m concerned about it but not for bad reasons. What stats do we have on the different reasons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaking news! Criminals use crypto, and people get scammed. This happens as well with fiat, so that must surely mean fiat is a scam!

  Flawless logic, really. You people impress me with your thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean through regulation, yes, partly

  If you mean they hold most of it and thus have a total decision power, then I must disagree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s complete misinformation.

  The point of blockchain is not to be traceable but not alterable or tamperable.

  Some cryptocurrencies, like Monero, achieve high anonymity. While not perfect, good opsec will fix its flaws. Just like anything. That’s not the case with the majority of cryptocurrencies though, but saying anonymity is but an illusion is just false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peak life moment, when things were simpler

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This

  No worries, we can still swap conventional coins to XMR. Many smaller countries are not interested in reguling it, and we already know a few exchanges that don’t give a fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s pseudonymous, but if you remove all links with your original identity, you can even use non-privacy coins and not be known

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anonymous / private payments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

  And people should also know that there are privacy coins and mixers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard of BTC/any-> XMR -> BTC/any

  If you know your thing, you can churn, buy the initial crypto with gift cards, use VPNs or Tor… yea GL for finding me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the kind of thing that would be cool to do actually, but I’m not server savy enough to make a server that won’t die easily under attacks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  paying in crypto is nice for this reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would personally be for that

  The offensive mods should be hidden by default or similar, with a trigger warning on the mod asking to move on if you don’t agree instead of crying in comments. Same for LGBT… stuff, but we can show by default because it’s not offensive, but have a way to hide it so that those that hate social progress won’t cry as well

  And there you go. A platform for everyone. You won’t agree with everyone, but you can make the experience tailored to what you want or don’t want to see

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yea of course they’re not, and I would say bigotry was not my aim with my comment. The company can do whatever the fuck they want and it’s probably better this way.

  I do get that some people might want extreme free speech where nothing gets censored. It allows for other non conventional ideas to spread. For better, and for worse. Yea nowadays it’s often for worse but hey, there’s still a chance. All of this is really subjective.

  I just don’t believe that a mod that changes Voice 1 and Voice 2 to Women voice and Men voice is bigotry. Removing pride flags in a game is… well it says a lot of the person, but it doesn’t harm anyone directly and it’s something you have to actively add to your game if you want it. There could be criticism of pride which can be valid as well but that’s beyond my point.

  Having this kind of content hidden and with trigger warnings is still more or less doable depending on the content, and can allow for more expression than classical rules, and not only bad expression.

  Shitty mods like Crack Life for half-life are super offensive but funny as hell if you take it with a grain of salt. Knowing that could be banned sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much all platforms do this. It’s not a bad thing to want a big and established uncensored platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretty big problem, but as long as governments don’t do shit then we’re pretty much fucked.

  Either we take the train and contribute to the problem, or we don’t but get left behind, and end up being the harmed one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Dying Light 2 worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Annoying crafting system? What was the original crafting system like?

  Sorry, I meant to say annoying repair system. Weapons often break and could only be repaired a fixed amount of time. Now this is gone, and they can be repaired at multiple NPCs for gold and components.

  So it seems that playing the game on hard should be the default, right?

  I don’t remember what I set but yea, it’s definitely too easy. Might be my fault though. The problem is that setting high difficulty removes some cool UI elements like enemy HP and attack indicators which I like